Two tracks, one discipline.
The short version: I'm a data & AI platform engineer at Vantage, a specialty insurer, where I own the enterprise CDC/streaming platform, run the governed lakehouse, and spearheaded the Claude plugin marketplace — 12 plugins across six business domains, used analyst to C-suite. I'm AWS certified, I came up through State Farm, and I ship iOS apps on the side. I run, I practice yoga, and I build things that hold up under load — that sentence is the whole brand.
Open to AVP-level data-platform leadership in financial services: the job I already do — owning the platform, the roadmap, and the people-side of adoption — with the title attached.
I joined early enough to sit on the committee that designed the enterprise data architecture — data lake, EDW, reporting layer — as its reporting architect, and helped build the core reporting solution the company scaled on. Later I inherited a half-built CDC/replication platform when its senior engineer left; I shipped it, re-architected it onto Kafka on Kubernetes ($30K+/yr saved), and it's been mine end to end since.
The platform's most consequential layer now is semantic: I spearheaded the Claude plugin marketplace — architected it, authored the domain skills, and run its roadmap, evaluations, governance, and support. Business leaders at every level, C-suite included, build QBRs, reserve reviews, and financial reports from it. Everything ships as code, observability included.
The leadership half of the job: code reviews, mentoring, office hours driving adoption of AI-assisted development — serving every level of the business and translating in both directions. Along the way: a key component of the enterprise pricing tool — a TypeScript microservice on Azure (GraphQL, MCP, PostgreSQL) — SOC 2 SOPs and audit support, and adoption decisions run on usage analytics.
Nights and weekends I'm an indie iOS developer — Swift, SwiftUI, HealthKit, on-device AI, in the fitness and wellness space, because that's where I actually live. QuotedAI is live on the App Store; more are on the way. The phone is a wonderful teacher of constraints. In the open: Waybill, an MIT-licensed Claude Code plugin for token accounting on AI-assisted work — public code and docs, so the quality bar is inspectable.
Vantage — Data Engineer III, Platform & Semantic Analytics
CDC/streaming platform owner · spearheaded the Claude plugin marketplace · governed lakehouse · observability as code · SOC 2 stewardship
Vantage — Reporting Analyst & Architect
Co-designed the enterprise data architecture (lake, EDW, reporting layer) on the core design committee · built the reporting solution the company scaled on · promoted to Data Engineer
State Farm — Data Analyst
Data governance for P&C analytics groups · Agile migration of analytics workloads to AWS Redshift · designed and ran the team's AWS training program
Independent Contractor — data, analytics & technology
Built client data, analytics, and technology platforms — flagship: Laughlin River Tours' full stack (automated data pipelines, AWS QuickSight dashboards over Glue-combined sources, trend analysis); payment processing (Stripe) and menu systems for Laughlin Ice @ Regency Casino; additional solutions for WrapWorks Las Vegas and others
Earlier — analytics & operations
Analyst and operator roles across hospitality and property management, including founding and running a small business (Entrepreneur of the Year nominee), and at Arizona Snowbowl a table-management application with $100K+ in cost avoidance — a decade of making organizations run on their data
“Platforms, apps, and the person — built to hold up under load.”
The fastest way to see if we should talk: read the marketplace case study, then email me.
Email info@jakeawilliams.com